I have been thinking about the specific immigrants coming through our southern border. A lot of people are making noise about them. TV, newspapers the Internet are filled with discussion both in straight news and editorial content.

Here is noise from me on the topic.

Let them come. Let the fathers and mothers who bring their children to a better life, the young who otherwise have no future, the families who flee political or endemic violence find welcoming here. They suffer loneliness, fear, exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, and even death to get here. Welcome them. They will mow the lawns, landscape our environment, pick our crops, cook our food, wash our cars, Uber us around, build and roof our homes (in 116-degree temperatures). They are willing to do that because it is way better than what they left.

Some will be bad, others will take some of our jobs.

For the “bad” people, criminals and all who would do us harm, come down on them. Hard. Very hard. Maybe double what an American is penalized. That would seem to be fair. If Americans commit crimes against us, we have failed them educationally, morally etc. It’s our bad. If an illegal immigrant commits a crime against us, some other society has failed him. Not our fault, we were in no position to affect his/her development. Do not do a crime if you’re an immigrant, we are going to ensure that you’ll wish with all your heart that you had never done it.

For rapists and murderers, we catch them and then ensure that they never see another human being again until they die. Gang members will be removed but dealt with fairly. Pedophiles (though my first inclination is to treat them the same as the rapists) would seem to have mental problems so maybe formalized into grouped settings removed from general society can be ay for liRecidivism results in a doubling of penalties. One more instance puts you away for long, long time.

For Americans who are displaced in their jobs we can offer special help. If they can prove steady employment for a specific period, we will draw them back from those professions, provide a list of needed work and let them choose a future career path, pay them the whole time at a basic living wage scaled for size of family, provide health insurance and train them in that profession. If the worker doesn’t want to change to a more profitable work path, they can opt to do said profession at whatever the market bears in that area. If it’s lower than before the immigrants came, so be it. Market value for the immigrants is what they are willing to do for that price. 

All this displacement can create new jobs for Americans. We will need investigators to verify. Verify if the American claiming displacement experience has really been displaced, verify the backgrounds of immigrants who are discovered. We will need teachers who are train the selected professions. We will need correctional workers. Our borders have to be staffed. We could create jobs by building immigrant education centers and staff them to help our additions assimilate into our society productively. Teach them our language, our laws, our society in general.

From an immigration center, they have to spend a certain amount of time living next to a host or hosts scaled once again to family size. Make friends. Have them invite you into their cultures starting with their holidays; invite them to yours. Show them our Christmas and Thanksgiving and let them thank you with theirs. Find the joy in those holidays and take the best from each. They have to work and pay taxes like everybody else. After the probationary period is over they can go anywhere they want any time they want. Welcome to the USA. After another specific period of time and citizenship, whatever harsher penalties they would have faced as an immigrant then reverts back to that of any American citizen.